01/09/2026
Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche
Quote of the Week
January 9. 2026
Nine Hurdles
A free and resourceful and fully equipped human body
That's freed of the eight unfree states is not easy to get
To get to the heart of this free and resourceful occasion
And get past the pleasures of life is not easy to do
To see what is wrong with phenomena of samsara
And accomplish nirvana is not something easy to do
Although one might practice true Dharma extensively
The purest conducive conditions don't easily join
A lama who masters instructions and scriptures and logic
And has a compassionate heart is not easy to find
A student with faith who does not get fed up or exhausted
And is able to actually practice, not easy to find
A practice environment blessed with the proper conditions
Free of all hazard and fear is not easy to find
Friends with the same motivation and way to apply it
Whose thinking accords with your own are not easy to find
A body that's able to work with its pain and its illness
And do all you bid it is not something easy to find
Although you might get every one of these factors together
To practice with one-pointed mind is not easy to do
These are nine things which are difficult factors to come by
They're difficult, but— it's these difficult things you must do
Composed by Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche at Cha’n Centre, Tenerife, Canary Islands in the summer of 1995.Translated by Jim Scott
